Bilateral Complete Optic Atrophy and Hemorrhagic Infarction of the Putamen Caused by Methanol Intoxication

Şeyhmus Arı1, İhsan Çaça2, Hasan Kayabaşı3
1Department of Ophthalmology, Diyarbakır State Hospital, Diyarbakir, Turkey
2Department of Ophthalmology, Dicle University, Faculty of Medicine,Diyarbakir, Turkey
3Department of Internal Medicine, Dicle University Faculty of Medicine, Diyarbakır, Turkey

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